I'm counting 8 actually
FAO Tottenham Hotspur | Fighting Cock Goes Into Meltdown | Glast...gone
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They’re the laughing stock of London mate never mind Europe.
Feel sorry for the fans not the club management. As Jamie Redknapp said last night, he gets away with it because there are no fans in the stadium. If he served that up in front of a full house, there would be a lot of rumblings.
Don’t think Levy could ignore it.
Just googled “Fighting Cock” to understand what this thread was on about.
Don’t recommend you do the same.
Don’t recommend you do the same.
The Athletic did a really interesting piece saying how he and Faria believed strongly in tactical periodisation theory (yup first time I've heard of it too!) It basically says all training must be done with the ball to replicate real match situations, which sounds fine until you realise that what gets dumped is gym sessions, input from fitness and stamina coaches and science based fitness tools such as GPS tracking
I'd imagine that effectively ignoring your fitness department and eschewing sports tech for your on opinion based on experience would have lot to do with why United and then Spurs under Mou seem to have dropped their overall fitness levels.
Full article here https://theathletic.com/2506644/202...ide-story-of-fireworks-tensions-and-trophies/
That really is interesting, I remember reading during his 2nd Chelsea stint that it was the other way around and the coaching was more fitness and less football, though I can't remember the source - it may not have been a reputable one. He did used to manage to keep key players fit over long periods despite playing so many games, so it made some sense.
The above is surprising though. Jose's style of football appears to require stamina above all else, so it's strange he would sacrifice gym work for 100% focus on football, particularly as his teams haven't had a noticeable style of play for some time. They definitely do look to tire quickly, and that dates back to us and the tail end of his 2nd Chelsea stint.
Is the above somewhat why Lukaku left United the size of a house? He looks very lean these days.
Very good.Live tracker of Glaston's plane:
I wonder (and this is pure speculation now) if, when he and Faria first started at Chelsea they effectively knew more about fitness than a lot of other people, so were able to judge for themselves when people should play and when they shouldn't etc, but fifteen years on sports science has evolved so much that everyone using it has caught up and then moved past them. In a similar fashion to the diet changes Wenger made when he first arrived at Arsenal, everyone thought it was weird at first and then caught on pretty quickly!
I just don’t see it with Lloris. Even in his absolute prime, he dropped some absolute clangers. World class saves are minimal these days and people only don’t bring up his frequent mistakes anymore because he won the World Cup, where he still made one of the stupidest, if not worst, mistakes a top keeper can make. Henderson had the best XG to goals conceded ratio in the PL last season and I think we can agree that he hasn’t regressed.
Aurier over AWB is debatable because I don’t rate AWB on the ball at this point (tbh, he’s one of the 4 players I feel we could upgrade on easily), but Aurier is very Lloris-like. So clumsy. Even Mourinho told him directly that he has the capacity to give ‘shit penalties’ away. Slightly better than AWB going forward, but at the back, he can be disastrous. Remember that rugby tackle against Leicester too? Awful.
Oh dear
I can handle these two, there's a slight argument for both imo... I actually rate Reguilon as a wing back very highly.
But Lo Celso over Pogba & Bruno is a complete fecking joke. It's Shutter Island plastic revolver material.
Gone after the cup final or after top 4 is officially gone?
To be honest I’d quite like them to finish outside the top 4 but then give City a severe bumming just to ensure he stays another season. The meltdown is just too good.
No.
It was is a gruesome watch, how anyone could call it a sport is beyond me.
People are just pre-bitter because Levy won't sale us Kane in the summer, it's pathetic. Makes me absolutely sick to see the jealously.
Just googled “Cock Meltdown” to understand what this thread was on about.
Don’t recommend you do the same.
Don’t recommend you do the same.
I think this is spot on - it's so deeply ironic that Mourinho has wound up following in Wenger's footsteps after constantly ribbing him about it.
Just googled “Cock goes into” to understand what this thread was on about.
Don’t recommend you do the same.
Don’t recommend you do the same.
I do not get why people are calling this a wum post.
This is the same thing that happened with us when Mourinho was here. Everyone thought all our players were crap and that we needed an entirely new team.
Although I disagree about Aurier who I think is shite. Might be a little recency bias after watching Pogba eat his lunch yesterday.
It’s up to Levy - he will have a demotivated striker on the books, not us. With the progress we are making, it won’t be difficult to lure decent calibre players going forward.
Besides, if we improve midfield (and thus forwards will have better service), then our strikers will also start to score more - so it may actually be more important to strengthen other areas first
Just went to thefightingcock.co.uk to understand what this thread was on about.
Absolutely recommend you do the same*.
*May exceed your daily recommended salt intake.
Absolutely recommend you do the same*.
*May exceed your daily recommended salt intake.
Yeah maybe, I was just taking the piss really.
It is quite funny it’s Spurs, especially after the way they behaved yesterday
It's eerie how similar the fans' opinion of him is to how we were under his tenure. So so happy that toxic bellend isn't clouding our club any longer.
And me. Never wanted him. Put up with him while he was here but I'm damn glad that he is somebody else's problem now.
Ragazzi, e Spurs
What's the italian for "Lads, its Spurs"?
Reguilon isn't bad going forward but he's in no way as defensively solid as Shaw.
The main thing about that Spurs side is whilst it's stacked with brilliant attacking players, they lack quality in midfield and defense. They got completely overrun yesterday.
I think Højbjerg is the standout player there but the players around him aren't up for it at all.
Grazie ragazzi
What's the italian for "Lads, its Spurs"?
Good team tua sorella.
As well as all the posts about Mourinho, this also sounds awfully familiar
Just to clarify, it's not really representative of anything. The clue is probably in the name. It's a collection of people who are usually banned from other sites.
The unfortunate reality is that the noise is all from semi-psychotic people at the moment. I expect a lot of people like myself have completely swerved their "own" club's forums because it's almost always unpleasantly overrun by dissenters, or people who see it as "their right" to be keyboard warriors whenever reality isn't reflective of their FM saves.
Agreed, in a 3-5-2 he would look a far better player. As would Doherty at RWB. Their squad balance for a set formation is all over the place. They have full backs better suited as wing backs & a centre midfield with little creativity. Højbjerg, whilst a very good holding mid, is actually a limited player. I'd argue you can't play him centre mid in a wing back system, it would be far too defensive. Better defensive full backs would actually help them a lot.
I don't watch a lot of Spurs, because they are twats, but haven't they played a wing back system this season at all?
Still my favourite.
There was a wonky full back system earlier in the season (left wing was full back, right wing was wing back).
The issue is, often, that Doherty is a RW in denial, Reguilion is better forwards than he is back, Davies is the complete opposite. Aurier is pretty well rounded, but is a bit like Lloris in that he can have a shocker out of nowhere.
I get the feeling Jose might be expecting too much footballing intelligence from the back lines, and they run into each other too much. Doherty was probably hindered by the COVID thing, but besides that he's not really been used in the same way he was at wolves, so no idea why we bought him unless it was a Mendes bribe.
I know that but in the long run it's not something I would wish in my worst enemy
So the (close) second most active Spurs forum and the first thing you get if you google 'tottenham hotspur forums' is just a bunch of psychotic cast-offs. You sure have a lot of them then, it seems?